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Treat procrastination as diagnostic information about which…

Treat procrastination as diagnostic information about which emotions specific tasks trigger rather than as evidence of character deficiency.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Procrastination is primarily a strategy for regulating… (procrastination as emotion regulation) and Emotions function as evaluative signals that provide… (emotions as evaluative signals). This principle reframes avoidance as data rather than failure, prescribing a diagnostic approach that follows from axioms about emotional function.